| mrstickball said: If you didn't know...I work for a PC gaming company. All our growth isn't in the 'emerging markets'. Argue as you like, but it's a double edged sword: if you claim that all growth is digital, then you must surely know that broadband penetration rates in emerging markets is still pretty bad. That's why in Asia, internet cafes are so popular for gaming. |
And that means there's an even bigger revenue potential in online businesses. People will keep getting and improving their internet connections, and get in touch with PC games.
| mrstickball said: But having said that, the PC market is dying for the ultra-hardcore games. Blockbusters are going far more toward console development, and guess what that tells me? There's not a lot of money in the traditional PC market. MMOs are too costly to develop, and there are few PC companies left such as Blizzard that are focused souly on that market. One must remember: Blizzard got bought out by a console gaming company, Activision. Why must we assume Blizzard is some sort of pinnacle for profits when Activision did buy them out? |
I always keep saying this but, just look at PC's 2009 exclusive lineup if you think PC is losing support.
PC is THE platform where niches can survive and thrive - the low cost of development and higher profit margins are great benefits of PC. The traditional market still took nearly half of PC's total revenue in 2007, and PC has more games coming out than all consoles combined.
I don't understand this about "ultra-hardcores". There are so many niches PC games coming out, many big games too, I hardly think they would leave PC (because of a reason I don't know).
Consoles are more Blockbusters concentrated because they are losing support from the small developers and have much less games than PC. If you see, PC has almost all blockbusters of X360, while X360 is missing ALOT of PC's great games.
About MMOs, there was an article on Gamasutra that said that Asian companies (continental) are more profitable than Western companies. Blizzard was not bought by Activision! Activision and Vivendi merged, with Vivendi holding the majority of the new company.
